Mindbender

What is the major and best known current in the circle of ocean currents that makeup the Atlantic Gyre?

Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a one-year subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing magazine.

Congratulations to Marvin Jacobs of Westport, CT who identified “thole pins” as “an early form of oarlocks that hold an oar in place on the gunnel as you row a small boat.”